Edward Rossiter

Colonel Sir Edward Rossiter, 1 January 1618 to 9 January 1669, was an English landowner, soldier and politician from Lincolnshire. He fought for the Parliamentarians in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was an MP at various times between 1646 and 1660. Restored to the army during the 1648 Second English Civil War, he suppressed Royalist revolts in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. One of the MPs excluded from the Commons by Pride's Purge in December 1648, Rossiter opposed the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, unlike his grandfather Sir John Bourchier.

Edward Rossiter

Colonel Sir Edward Rossiter, 1 January 1618 to 9 January 1669, was an English landowner, soldier and politician from Lincolnshire. He fought for the Parliamentarians in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was an MP at various times between 1646 and 1660. Restored to the army during the 1648 Second English Civil War, he suppressed Royalist revolts in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. One of the MPs excluded from the Commons by Pride's Purge in December 1648, Rossiter opposed the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, unlike his grandfather Sir John Bourchier.